Bottle-stopper.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS I-I. BROOME, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,006, dated August 29, 1899.

Application filed April 10, 1899. Serial No. 712,380. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS H. BROOME, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers, of which the followin g is a specification.

Bottles have been made with offsets or shoulders within the mouth upon which a cork has been introduced and held down by a plug, bail-wire, and lever to the connection around the outside of the neck. With aerated water it is found that the pressure causes the liquid to pass through the cork to a greater or less extent. I prevent this by applying a disk of paper saturated with paraffin or similar wax and resting upon the shoulder between the cork and the liquid, and I combine along with the plug or body a flanged connection to the bail-wire and a layer of rubber between the flange of the connection and the parts of the body, so that the bail-Wire as it is pressed in between the body and the connection causes the rubber to be compressed to a greater or less extent, so as to apply a constant pressure and friction of the connection upon the bail-wire, so that the plug or stopper will not be loose to slip end wise upon the bail-wire, but will hold in the normal position under the ordinary circumstances of use and not become displaced.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the improvement as adapted to use with liquid that is under pressure in the bottle. Fig. 2 is a similar view with a different shape of body. Fig. 3 is a section of the body shown in Fig. l at right angles to Fig. 1, and Fig. t is a plan view of the body shown in Fig. 3.

The bottle-neck A is provided with a shoulder at 2 around the inner surface, and upon this I place a disk of thick paper 3, prepared with paraflin or similar waterproof wax, and the size of this diskis sufficient to cover the shoulder and rest at its edges against the interior cylindrical part of the mouth of the bottle, and the cork B rests upon the paper 3 and upon the shoulder, and the pressure applied thereto makes a tight joint between the shoulder and the cork and the intervening layer of paper, and the paper prepared with wax intervening between the liquid in the bottle and the cork prevents such liquid pass ing into the cork.

The stopper-body 0, Figs. 1, 3, and 4, is adapted to rest upon the cork B, so as to hold the same firmly in place, and the upper surface of the body is recessed for the reception of the connection D, and this is adapted to extend up and pass over the bail-Wire E, and the base of the connection D is flanged at 4, and a disk of rubber F rests upon the flange 4 and below the portion 5 of the body 0, so that the rubber being sprung around the respective parts holds the connection D in position, and when the bail-wire E is forced in beneath the connection, which is shown in Fig. 1 as a hook, and above the surface 6 of the stopper-body the rubber F is slightly compressed, so that this rubber F acts constantly to keep the bail-wire E against the surface 6, and thereby apply sufficient friction to prevent the stopper sliding endwise of the bailwire in order that the stopper may remain approximately in the proper position when the bottle is uncorked.

The same parts as those before described are represented in Fig. 2; but the stopperbody 0 is shaped differently from the stopper-body O, and the rubber F is introduced. between the flange 14 of the connection D and the shoulder 15 of the body 0, so that the rubber F is compressed as the bail-wire E is pressed in between the connection D and the surface 16 of the body 0. In both instances the rubber performs the same duty of applying a friction between the connection, the bail-wire, and the surface of the stopper, so as to prevent the stopper slipping endwise upon the bail-wire.

In Fig. 2 the body 0 is represented as sufflciently long to extend above the bail E, there being a hole across through the body for the passage of the bail, and I remark that the form of stopper represented in Fig. 1 is better adapted to aerated Waters or liquids introduced under pressure into the bottle, because the outer edges of the elastic washer F can form a tight joint in the filling apparatus and above the inlet for the liquid, so that the stopper-body, the cork, and the disk of paper can be inserted into the filling apparatus before the bottle is filled with the liquid and then forced down through that filling apparatus into the mouth of the bottle and held there until the bottle is removed and the bailwire swung up into plaoebeneath the hook of the connection for holding the stopper in position.

It is to be understood that the plunger ordinarily made use of in bottle-filling apparatus is to be constructed with reference to giving opportunity for swinging up the bail-wire E into position before the sustaining-power, acting upon the plunger, is removed, the pressure at that time being supported by the bailwire and the lever connection to the band around the bottle-neck, as usual.

I claim as my invention 1. The-combination with the bottle having an internal shoulder within the neck, a stopper-body and means for pressing the same into the neck, of a cork plug independent of the stopper-body and coming between the same and the shoulder and a disk of waterthe connection and the stopper-body so as to apply a pressure upon the bail-wire and prevent the stopper sliding upon said bail-wire under the ordinary circumstances of use, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 3d day of April, 1899.

L. H. BROOME.

W'itnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, E. E. PoHLE. 

